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Whether you’re a fan of basketball or not, March Madness Brackets have become increasingly difficult to avoid with each passing year. As a result, if you’re unfamiliar with how these things work you’re likely going to find yourself confused, embarrassed and/or clueless in many conversations throughout the month of March.

Fortunately for you, and in the name of good competition, 1vsOne has developed a quick and easy How-To for approaching the whole March Madness thing for those not in the know.

Choose your strategy: as a complete beginner in Brackets, you have three strategies to choose from: favorites, statistics or random guessing.

Using the ‘favorites’ strategy means you are selecting the higher ranked team in each matchup.

If you chose statistics, you are going to follow a statistical framework to select seeds/teams based on the seed’s probability of advancing in each round based on historical data and using your own judgement (flipping a coin) about upsets. Here’s a great article that provides a framework.

The ‘random guessing’ strategy is at once the easiest to execute and most difficult to execute successfully. To use this strategy flip a coin for each matchup.